SspN

• Description: small acid-soluble spore protein (minor)
  
  

Gene name	sspN
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	small acid-soluble spore protein (minor)
Function	protection of spore DNA
Gene expression levels in SubtiExpress: sspN
MW, pI	5 kDa, 10.441
Gene length, protein length	144 bp, 48 aa
Immediate neighbours	ynzL, tlp
Sequences	Protein DNA DNA_with_flanks
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList
Expression at a glance   PubMed

Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigF regulon, SigG regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU18020

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU18020

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: sspN family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:
  • spore core (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• BsubCyc: BSU18020

• Structure:

• UniProt: Q7WY69

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: sspN-tlp PubMed

• Expression browser: sspN PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigF PubMed, SigG PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation in the forespore (SigF, SigG) PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Stephanie T Wang, Barbara Setlow, Erin M Conlon, Jessica L Lyon, Daisuke Imamura, Tsutomu Sato, Peter Setlow, Richard Losick, Patrick Eichenberger
The forespore line of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis.
J Mol Biol: 2006, 358(1);16-37
[PubMed:16497325] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

A Cabrera-Hernandez, J L Sanchez-Salas, M Paidhungat, P Setlow
Regulation of four genes encoding small, acid-soluble spore proteins in Bacillus subtilis.
Gene: 1999, 232(1);1-10
[PubMed:10333516] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)